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State and local government : politics and public policies

Looks at ways in which state and local governments in America are meeting challenges such as increasing diversity, maintaining institutions of representative government as direct democracy becomes more popular, and providing citizens with government services during the budget crisis since World War II.Read more...

The setting of state and local government --
Intergovernmental relations --
Political parties and interest groups --
Political participation and elections --
State and local legislatures --
Governors, bureaucrats and mayors --
Courts, police and corrections --
Financing state and local government --
Suburbs, metropolitan areas, and rural communities --
State and local policy making : conflict and accommodation.